Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faults, God knows, are numerous and glaring enough," he said, "and recognition of those faults is the chief cause of the loss of confidence that has afflicted so many people of the Western World. But we do recognize them; we do not pretend that our failures were decreed by historical necessity; nor do we rewrite history according to the percepts of Doublethink to prove that they never happened at all. What we have to offer is a method and the freedom of mind that makes the method possible...
Hammond has come to accept these outbursts of song as inevitable, but he doesn't pretend to like them any better now than he did six years ago. In fact, Hammond seldom pretends about anything; he is straight-forward and direct, occasionally, as one Kirkland tutor suggests, to the point of near-indiscretion. But this frankness has won Hammond the respect of House members--you always know, they say, where you stand with The Mace...
...first thing the average man will notice on walking from the marble staircase into this lofty vault is a superfluity of girls. Cliffedwellers, stationed at the numerous tables, sit waiting for their prey. Some pretend to study weighty tomes; others idly thumb the pages of Real Screen Romances, patiently awaiting the right moment. Skeptics, doubting the efficacy of their "Got a match?" technique, are likely to become social theorists on analysis of the Reference Room marriage record...
...affinity of many non-Communist leftists for the Hiss defense, and with the British tendency to consider the U.S. "hysterical" about Communists, it surprised no one that Jowitt found for Alger Hiss. It may be a shock to some readers, however, that a onetime Lord Chancellor does "not pretend to know" about Communist morality and that he cannot get facts as an ordinary American jury got them...
With the addition of Pennsylvania's Francis T. Murray, the parade of "retiring" Ivy League athletic directors has grown one hundred percent. This swelling of the ranks is encouraging, for Pennsylvania has heretofore refused even to pretend a deemphasis policy. Murray's departure is good news for Harvard...